Busby Berkeley-Land

How did three films from 1933 revolutionise the movie musical and bring sex and spectacle to the big screen?

Booker Prize Book Groups

All six shortlisted novelists for the 2019 Booker Prize joined Front Row listeners for special book groups.

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‘I want to reclaim the often misplaced voice’

Some of Britain’s best young artistic talent grapple with how their identities are shaped by race, sex and gender.

The Way I See It

Steve Martin and the Lonely Synchromists

Actor Steve Martin finds two "lonely" works by Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell that speak to him

BBC Radio 3

Professor Janna Levin and Starry Night

Janna Levin is an expert in black holes. How does she see Van Gogh’s night sky, painted as he battled mental illness?

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Jason Moran and Broadway Boogie Woogie

Jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran feels moved to music Piet Mondrian’s straight lines and blocks of colour.

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We Got It Easy

A bright morning is tainted by the everyday struggles that youth in Britain endure

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Notes on Being a Lady

A challenge of the rules society sets on black femininity, based on a Kadish Morris poem

New Creatives

Elephant in the Room

A personal reflection on how the artist’s mixed-race heritage has shaped her outlook on life

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Dying to Live

Multi-layered narrative probing the experience of a young black man growing up in Bristol

New Creatives

Taking you to the heart of the movies

Two-Wheeled Terrors

Tearing up cinema for 60 years: youngsters on motorbikes, scooters and bicycles

BBC IPLAYER

The Wilhelm Scream

The ultimate movie in-joke: How a sound effect conquered cinema, appearing in hundreds of films from the '50s to now

BBC iPlayer

Space Dads

How the unknowable reaches of space are often the perfect location for examining the bonds of parenthood

BBC iPlayer

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Oliver Jeffers - Here We Are

A profile of Oliver Jeffers, the massively successful children’s picture book maker.

BBC Northern Ireland

Emeli Sandé’s Street Symphony

Emeli Sandé is joined on stage by some of Scotland’s best buskers for this once-in-a-lifetime concert

BBC SCOTLAND

Van Meegeren: The Forger Who Fooled the Nazis

Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the story of the artist who made millions selling fake Vermeers in Nazi-occupied Holland.

BBC Four

Beats, Bass & Bars – The Story of Grime

How Grime rose from the council estates of East London to become the most important British musical movement since punk.

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Embedded in the subtext

An inclusive tour of European art in London’s museums and galleries

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Yinka Shonibare

The artist discusses sculpture, elitism and Brexit

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Arts on BBC Sounds

Only Artists

Poet Tony Walsh meets the actor Julie Hesmondhalgh.

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Dungeons and Dragoncasts?

Why are four-hour-long Dungeons and Dragons podcasts so popular?

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Paperback Writers

The Comics Laureate Hannah Berry shares a selection of music that means something to her.

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World of Warcraft

Alex Humphreys meets the sound artists behind the hugely popular game.

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